Who was the real winner from the London Olympic Games? According to a groundbreaking analysis of the official medal tally by an Australian statistician, the most successful nation at the Olympics was... Australia!

The day Adam Rawiri Palmer was sent to prison was the day he was due to start an intensive two-month alcohol rehabilitation programme. Three months later, on Tuesday last week, Palmer was bailed and within hours he was dead.

Mairehau resident Chris Conway took this photo from the footpath outside his Thornton St house about 8am today. "Our garage is flooded and the backyard is completely covered. There is over a foot of water when standing on the road."